This is a ~35 minute talk titled "Thoughts as Thinkers: the biology and computer science of inspiration within and without us" that I gave right before Chris Fields, at a recent philosophy conference. Still working on different ways to present the concept of patterns as behavioral policies, their origin, and applications of this idea.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Policies of navigation

(04:40) Biological free lunches

(10:15) Molecular learning ratchets

(14:00) Competencies of xenobots

(20:48) Latent space of patterns

(27:12) Embodied mathematical minds

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This is a ~39 minute talk titled "New Bodies, Unconventional Minds: a perspective on a continuum of cognition (& consciousness)" for a consciousness conference about our laboratory model systems relevant to the study of minds, my Platonic Space model, and a few opinions on consciousness (at the end, since I don't have any strong claims about consciousness per se).

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Continuum of novel minds

(07:11) Molecular networks and learning

(11:42) Xenobots and anthrobots

(18:25) Paying for competencies

(28:21) The space of patterns

(33:28) Rethinking nature of consciousness

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This is a ~35 minute talk titled "Thoughts as Thinkers: the biology & computer science of inspiration" I gave at a recent conference.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) The nature of inspiration

(15:51) Xenobots and novel minds

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Podcast Website: https://thoughtforms-life.aipodcast.ing

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7JCmtoeH53neYyZeOZ6ym5

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Blog: https://thoughtforms.life

The Levin Lab: https://drmichaellevin.org